Hawaii

Alleluia Circle of Women come together in a sacred circle to create an ohana family and temenos, sacred space. Upraised winged arms share and spread soul energies of the spirit.
Logo. YaYa Journeys
 

 

Aumakua Ancestors must be honored with respect, responsibility and ritual.
Puako petroglyph site. Hawaii

 

DANCING Tree of Life shows Goddesses above and below creating as they dance.
Crown of India quilt pattern. Honolulu Academy of Arts and Mission Houses Museum.
 

   

Laka and Her Ohana, global family, are dancing healing energies of Honua/earth, Ear/air, Ahi/fire and Wai/water.
Quilt Pattern. Lydia Ruyle, 1996

 

Lilliuokalani, the last Queen of the Islands, reigned until this century. Her sceptre fan of authority has thirteen lunar arcs making a tree of life from a seed topped by a Goddess dancing.
The Bishop Museum

 

Pele Honua Mea is the creatrix of the Hawaišian Islands where she is making new volcanic earth each day. Honua Mea means Earth Mother in Hawaišan. She is dancing in a priestess circle framed by her rainbow vulva of transformation at her volcanic home Halemaumau on the Big Island.
Logo. Goddess Tour of Hawaii, 1997

 

Honua Mea

Pele MANDALA is circle of energy of six Pele priestesses dancing and creating fires of passion.
Effigy figure. Wood. Bishop Museum. Honolulu

 

Piko Birthing Mandala celebrates the birth of a child. A piko or place of emergence is drawn in volcanic rock to join the marks and spirits of the ancestors.
Anaehoomalu petroglyph site. South Kohala. Hawaii

 

Priestesses of Pele
with mana aurae call women together to create sacred space.
Anaehoomalu petroglyph site. South Kohala. Hawaii

   

Uli Pineapple Goddess Mandala is continously changing, birthing, growing, flowering, dying with the Goddess of Great Mystery, Uli, the first Mother.
Pineapple quilt pattern. Made for William F. Pogue. c. 1918. Hawaii

 

Water Goddess Mandala creates endless change with her infinite waves of energy.
Crowns and Kahilis quilt. Parker family. 1890. Hawaii

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The Hawaii banners were exhibited at Kalani Honua on the big island of Hawai'I in
January, 1997 and at the Kauai Museum, January 15-March 15, 2001.

 

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